Aerospace integrated networks innovation for empowering 6G: A survey and future challenges

D Zhou, M Sheng, J Li, Z Han - IEEE Communications Surveys …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ever-increasing demand for ubiquitous and differentiated services at anytime and
anywhere emphasizes the necessity of aerospace integrated networks (AINs) which consist …

Towards autonomous multi-UAV wireless network: A survey of reinforcement learning-based approaches

Y Bai, H Zhao, X Zhang, Z Chang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based wireless networks have received increasing
research interest in recent years and are gradually being utilized in various aspects of our …

Topology control algorithms in multi-unmanned aerial vehicle networks: An extensive survey

MM Alam, MY Arafat, S Moh, J Shen - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have attracted increased attention from
academic and industrial research communities, owing to their wide range of potential …

Edge-assisted multi-layer offloading optimization of LEO satellite-terrestrial integrated networks

X Cao, B Yang, Y Shen, C Yuen… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sixth-Generation (6G) technologies will revolutionize the wireless ecosystem by enabling
the delivery of futuristic services through satellite-terrestrial integrated networks (STINs). As …

Cooperative UAV resource allocation and task offloading in hierarchical aerial computing systems: A MAPPO based approach

H Kang, X Chang, J Mišić, VB Mišić… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article investigates a hierarchical aerial computing system, where both high-altitude
platforms (HAPs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provision computation services for …

Joint trajectory plan and resource allocation for UAV-enabled C-NOMA in air-ground integrated 6 G heterogeneous network

P Qin, X Wu, Z Cai, X Zhao, Y Fu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Leveraging unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for access and high altitude platform stations
(HAPSs) for data backhaul to construct the Air-Ground Integrated Network (AGIN), is a …

Blockchain-based resource trading in multi-UAV-assisted industrial IoT networks: A multi-agent DRL approach

MS Abegaz, HN Abishu, YH Yacob… - … on Network and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), mobile devices (MDs) and their demands for low-
latency data communication are increasing. Due to the limited resources of MDs, such as …

Complementarity, interoperability, and level of integration of humanitarian drones with emerging digital technologies: A state-of-the-art systematic literature review of …

E Aretoulaki, ST Ponis, G Plakas - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
The adoption of drones and other emerging digital technologies (DTs) has proven essential
in revolutionizing humanitarian logistics as standalone solutions. However, the …

Empowering smart cities: High-altitude platforms based Mobile Edge Computing and Wireless Power Transfer for efficient IoT data processing

A Nauman, N Alruwais, E Alabdulkreem, N Nemri… - Internet of Things, 2023 - Elsevier
This work presents an efficient framework that combines High Altitude Platform (HAP)-based
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) networks with Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) to optimize …

Cost optimization of UAV-MEC network calculation offloading: A multi-agent reinforcement learning method

J Xue, Q Wu, H Zhang - Ad Hoc Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC)
system, most existing studies do not effectively consider the task offloading of user …